Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 107 118
Rank change year-on-year +30 +11 -23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 62 65 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.59% 1.74% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 1.91% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 38 64
10th Percentile £385 £431 £363
25th Percentile £409 £503 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £554
90th Percentile £710 £820 £668
London median daily rate £515 £553 £523
% change year-on-year -6.79% +5.74% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £84.09 -
London median hourly rate - £87.05 £43.06
% change year-on-year - +102.15% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,404 4,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.78% 91.26% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,302 3,146
10th Percentile £350 £325 £364
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £16.33 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.19 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +35 57 £565 -5.83% 9
Infrastructure Engineering
London

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (22.58%) AWS
4 13 (20.97%) Entra ID
5 9 (14.52%) Mimecast
6 7 (11.29%) IaaS
7 5 (8.06%) OneDrive
7 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Storage
8 3 (4.84%) PaaS
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.23%) SaaS
10 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (32.26%) Firewall
2 7 (11.29%) DNS
3 6 (9.68%) WAN
4 4 (6.45%) Network Security
4 4 (6.45%) SAN
5 3 (4.84%) DHCP
5 3 (4.84%) VPN
5 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.23%) Internet
6 2 (3.23%) MPLS
6 2 (3.23%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.61%) LAN
7 1 (1.61%) NAS
7 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.84%) Sybase ASE
3 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) Sisense
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.06%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Finance
3 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) French Language
8 1 (1.61%) Front Office
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (46.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Site Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Python Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior
7 4 (6.45%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Security Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Development Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) IT Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) Kafka
1 9 (14.52%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (12.90%) RESTful
3 2 (3.23%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth
4 1 (1.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (12.90%) Algorithms
3 8 (12.90%) Data Structures
4 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) CMDB
5 1 (1.61%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.61%) iPhone
5 1 (1.61%) PKI
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.32%) Windows
2 17 (27.42%) Linux
3 11 (17.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.26%) DevOps
2 17 (27.42%) CI/CD
3 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (19.35%) ITIL
5 10 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (16.13%) Microservices
5 10 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (16.13%) Task Automation
6 8 (12.90%) Analytical Thinking
7 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (9.68%) Change Management
8 6 (9.68%) Identity Management
9 5 (8.06%) Cloud Security
9 5 (8.06%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (8.06%) Data Migration
9 5 (8.06%) Information Security
9 5 (8.06%) Migration
10 4 (6.45%) Analytics
10 4 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (6.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Python
2 11 (17.74%) Shell Script
3 8 (12.90%) Java
4 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.06%) C++
5 5 (8.06%) Go
6 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.61%) Bash
7 1 (1.61%) Bicep
7 1 (1.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.84%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (3.23%) CCNA
3 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) COBIT
1 2 (3.23%) GDPR
1 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.23%) NCSC
1 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (41.94%) Active Directory
2 15 (24.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (14.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 8 (12.90%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.84%) Docker
6 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.23%) XenApp
7 1 (1.61%) KVM
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.13%) SCCM
3 9 (14.52%) Consul
3 9 (14.52%) Grafana
3 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (14.52%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.84%) CASB
4 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.23%) Ansible
5 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.23%) SCOrch
5 2 (3.23%) Terraform
6 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (27.42%) VMware
3 10 (16.13%) Citrix
4 9 (14.52%) SaltStack
5 5 (8.06%) Bloomberg
5 5 (8.06%) Refinitiv
6 3 (4.84%) Dell
6 3 (4.84%) Okta
6 3 (4.84%) Sybase
7 2 (3.23%) Cisco
7 2 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (3.23%) HP
7 2 (3.23%) Imperva
7 2 (3.23%) Juniper
7 2 (3.23%) Netskope
7 2 (3.23%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.61%) Google
8 1 (1.61%) Kenna